When the Oxygen MKV is using the “Oxygen Pro” Control Surface in Ableton Live, the pads will be used to control clips. Note: Be sure to enable Arm Record in order to hear your MIDI instrument. The Instrument can now be triggered with the Oxygen # MKV In the Name column to the right of the Categories column, locate the Instrument or Plug-in of your choice. Click-and-drag the instrument to a MIDI track in Ableton Live Lite to load the instrument. In this Ableton Live tutorial, Dubspot’s Dan Salvaggio aka curl up takes us through his approach to achieving stereo width for sounds in a project.6. O ur all-new Ableton Live program at Dubspot LA, NY, and Online starts soon, Enroll Now! Learn four great techniques used to make your sounds wide. Stereo space is a crucial and often overlooked factor when it comes to making our productions the best they can be. In this article, curl up takes us through four simple techniques used to widen our individual tracks utilizing native Ableton Live 9 devices. ![]() The simplest method of widening the stereo signal on an individual channel in Ableton Live is to use the Utility device. This wonderful little device is quite powerful and tremendously easy to use. Here, let’s focus on the ‘width’ parameter. By default, it’s set at 100%, which gives us an unchanged signal. When we reduce the width to 0%, we’re removing the stereo signal completely, leaving us with a mono signal. Setting sounds to mono is often used on elements that are intended to sound tight and solid in the mix (i.e. kickdrums, sub basses, the bottom portion of a snare, etc.,). Alternatively, if we increase the width to 200%, we’re left only with the widened stereo signal. Typically, this is quite an extreme effect, and while you may have things sounding wide, it’ll be at the cost of your element sounding very thin and losing a lot of its meat. It’s recommended to use a light touch of stereo width (not straying too far above 100%). In addition, you could load a Utility on a Return Track with the width set to 200%, using (again) a very light touch with regards to sends, favoring select elements.Īuto Pan is a device most commonly used for bouncing the audio signal on a channel from left to right and vice versa at different rates. Based on that bit of info alone, we’re able to use the device to trick the listener into believing that they hear a static, wide track. This approach to widening a sound is achieved by adjusting the Rate control on Auto Pan to send VERY rapidly the signal from left to right and back. However, the issue with this technique is that when listening to a soloed track with this effect on, the LFO action is often quite apparent. This technique is less noticeable within the context of a busy song, as you’ll hear at the end of this article (spoilers!). Using Simple Delay to achieve stereo width is by far my favorite method, and gets the most use in my studio. Ableton’s Simple Delay device boasts timing controls for both the left and right channels. ![]() ![]() What we’ll do here is change the delay mode from Beat Sync (yellow box that reads “Sync”) to time-based (orange box that reads “Time”) by clicking on it.
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